The Airain or Airin is a long
river
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in the
Cher department in central
France
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.
Its source is at
Nérondes. It flows generally west, with a U shape. It is a
left tributary
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of the
Yèvre, into which it flows at
Savigny-en-Septaine, southeast of
Bourges.
Communes along its course
This list is ordered from source to mouth:
Nérondes,
Tendron,
Bengy-sur-Craon,
Flavigny,
Cornusse,
Ourouer-les-Bourdelins,
Charly
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,
Lugny-Bourbonnais,
Osmery,
Bussy,
Vornay,
Dun-sur-Auron
Dun-sur-Auron (, literally ''Dun on Auron'') is a commune in the Cher department in the Centre-Val de Loire region of France.
Geography
A farming area comprising a small town and a couple of hamlets situated by the banks of both the Auron and ...
,
Crosses
Crosses may refer to:
* Cross, the symbol
Geography
* Crosses, Cher, a French municipality
* Crosses, Arkansas, a small community located in the Ozarks of north west Arkansas
Language
* Crosses, a truce term used in East Anglia and Lincolnshire ...
,
Savigny-en-Septaine,
References
Rivers of France
Rivers of Cher (department)
Rivers of Centre-Val de Loire
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